U.S. Moves to Overhaul Jails That Breed Insurgents in Afghanistan

By ERIC SCHMITT

....  Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top military commander in Afghanistan, called for the creation of the task force in late August in a strategic assessment of the war that warned that the prisons in Afghanistan, including an American-operated detention center at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, were breeding grounds for Qaeda fighters.

“There are more insurgents per square foot in correction facilities than anywhere else in Afghanistan,” General McChrystal said in the report. ....